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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 26075063, member: 134416&quot;]I recently purchased an inexpensive (very inexpensive as Scantillas would go) worn sestertius.&nbsp; However, after some counter-opinions, I think it is really Domna.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a very quick purchase on my part, made on my phone, and I quickly acted because I thought that it&#039;d be gone by the time I got home.&nbsp; The women of Rome also were never really my specialty, so I&#039;d be less likely to notice a subtle difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it was an honest attribution mistake.&nbsp; The dealer is very reputable, and I have 15+ years of happy purchases.&nbsp; There&#039;s a cross-section of people here who aren&#039;t on Numisforums, and I wanted to get some final opinons before reaching out to the dealer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the acsearch.info examples which I considered to be relatively bulletproof Scantillas (CNG, NFA, etc.), I found some differences.&nbsp; The bona fide Scantillas have a straighter nose. Domna of this type has more of a curved button nose (of vcoins and acsearch examples with this same hairdo).&nbsp; Scantilla has kind of a Balbinus jowl line going on.&nbsp; Domna&#039;s chinline is straight.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t consider the very worn acsearch Scantillas, as some were probably misattributed Domnas.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1660818[/ATTACH] </p><p>27mm, 18.2g. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an HJB example of the Domna type:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6700499" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6700499" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6700499</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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